The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The late tremendous philippic of Arguelles against France, accusing her as the betrayer of Spanish free dom, and of having as deliberately plotted zand ma noeuvred to destroy the constitutional s' , ;-stem -of the Cortes from 1830 to 1836, as she had done formerly - from 1820 to 1823, has been loudly applauded by the Liberals of Madrid, and as indignantly repelled by the Ministerial Press of Paris. We perfectly understand the reasoning and the indignation of Arguelles, and although we may not go his length i❑ condemning, yet it cannot be denied that his conclusions are fairly and logically deduced from potent facts. In our own cen sures of th:• French system •of Government we have always r.ssigned two causes as capable of accounting for its extraordinary conduct : these are perfidy e.nd pusillanimity. Each observer may take his choice, since to one or the other must be attributed that series of humiliations and cringings before the Powers of ab solutist Europe, which has allowed these potentates to reign uncontrolled all round the French frontier from Strasburg to Bayonne. • We were once inclined to suppose that per ady ,was predominant, and that the apparent humiAlty of France was but a price paid for the real friendship of the absolutist potentates, and for the solid consequences of such friendship, which must soon become apparent in family alliance, in trea ties of peace and commerce, in short, in some signal advantage for France. Not one of these things, how ever, has come to pass. France and her Government have smiled, flattered, and cringed in vain ; nor has she received anything in return, save the most cold and in • suiting politeness. As to a marriage, the preference o f a widowed sovereign of petty and discontented ter ritories, a widower, too, with an heir living—the pre-- ference of such a Prince as this to the heir of the French empire is alone a proof at what value the wise rulers of the East estimate the dynasty raised to their throne by the choice of the French. Then there has been the death of Charles X., an event so well calculated to throw light upon the feelings and intentions of Courts. A royal demise is one of the few events on which a Court cannot con ceal its sentiments. On this occasion the French Carlists must have looked, to the Courts of Vienna and of Germany, to see whether the cause of legitimacy and of the elder branch had been aban doned, or was still to be upheld. What have they learned in answer? That Carlism and its principle is still upheld. Every honour Ilas been paid to it. The same Ambassadors, to 'whose menaces the French Government showed - itself obsequious in abandoning, Spain, were not rd.:iowed to repay this mighty conces sion by even the petty one of not wearing mourning for Charles X. When One remarks these and other symptotris, which tell as plainly as print or speech that the Emperors of Austria and Russia do not consider the: present Monarch of France as any more than a lucre Lieutenant of the kingdom, than as , a consul a vie, why then, indeed, one is obliged to admit that the policy of the French Government has been not so much owing to perfidy, as it has hitherto appeared, but that it has sprung from downright, blind, and miser able pusillanimity. It is impossible to remark this, or to reflect upon it for a moment, without being instantly forced back to regard the events and the men of our own great revolution—of that revolution which was analagous to the French movement of 1830. Both revolutions had for their inveterate foe a despotic prin ciple, represented by a league of tyrants. The revo lution of 1830 was accomplished in the teeth of the Holy Alliance ; that of 1688 in the teeth of the Popish League. Both were redoubtable and impla cable enemies. Mark the difference, and how the two conntries met their adversaries :—England defiant, proud, nay often insolent ; France cringing, flattering, and going on her knees for favours, which were refused her on account of her servility. But we are wrong, perhaps, to put the countries themselves, or the words France and England, in contrast, as if France herself were wanting in spirit. All the difference' proceeds from the character of the men who led and represented the revolutions in the two countries. This 'is seen in domestic as well as in foreign policy. In both countries the men who presided over the revolution chose themselves a King, and both Kings were men of high character and eminent to Tents. Never was Prince better endowed than. William with the character, and the qualities, and the wisdom adapted to govern by his own will, and to di rect State affairs according to his fantasy. But for all this superiority did the Statesmen and Govern , • ment of England permit William to rule them as lie listed, or to employ the resources of the country in the furtherance of the King's peculiar ideas or family interests ? No," said the great and truly English men ; "your Majesty is here the constitutional King of England, and no more. So away with your Dutch guards and your exclusively Orange interests. We will not suffer them. We are Englishmen, and we made our revolution for England, for its freedom and its greatness, not for you." King William talked of abdicating. He did but talk of it however. And both the cause and the principle of the revolution triumphed, instead of terminating, disgraced and humbled, in a second restoration. Let us turn to France since 1830, and what a wretched contrast do we behold! A Prince whom we will acquit, if you will, of any other motive than that of sincerely wishing to render triumphant and stable the cause and the principle upon which his throne is based ; but who, abandoned to his own individual wisdom by the mere shadows of Statesmen around him, and left to the unsupported force of .his own will by a representative assembly, which seems totally with out spirit, party, or political system, has thought it best to strengthen his throne by conciliating his absolutist enemi r;, instead of holding aloof in independent' pride and defying them. As to what might be called a great statesman in the Cabinet or in Parliament, we see none. Casimir Perier, indeed, gave noble promise, and might have proved the great vindicator of France and French pride. Thiers, also, ere he fell, took the same bold position ; and could he muster a Parliamentary patty behind him, and infuse spirit into a majority, lie might accomplish what Pc . rier wanted time, as well as genius perhaps, though certainly not spirit, to effect. But as to Guizot, the rhetorician, who accepts place on the condition of leaving Spain to her fate, what is he but the clever, the restless, the ambitious Bolingbroke—the Tory who, for a time, wore the thin varnish of Liberalism ? And Count Mole, what has he beyond Harley's address, except the total want' of Harley's Parliamentary talents ? The most melancholy reflection connected with this nullity of French policy and French states men, this neutralising of even the great moral power of France in Europe, is, that never, during the last civilized centuries, was there an epoch - - „ 11 , - u France might do so much towards the fur `..'',ierance of the great object of European liberty so little risk. Ministerial and Court people in P aris ask, " Will you secure us on the Rhine., inovided we pass the Py rennees ?" Secure thr:in on the Rhine ! and from whom ? Is it iron) R uss i a , the rage of whose Impe rial despot, uno)7.enched and unallayed in the blood of Poland, has - already fevered into insanity ? There, on the cont':ary, is displayed one of the precious fruits of desrtie rule and d• • right; where, when Pro v i- Lyme knee, in mercy to menaceenations, or in retribution for thousands oppressed and destroyed, has touched one head with folly, the entire political machine is power less and at a stand. Or is it from Austria that France fears invasion,? But who that knows the Austrian Court does not know that there, too, the power of an empire is completely enchained ? French statesmen are not unaware of the cause which renders the rivalry of Metternich and Kollowrath powerless to prevail one over the other, and which makes it difficult for both to conduct the current affairs of the empire in peace, T ien less in war. Of war, indeed, it is fully known they dare not even think. Yet this is the moment 'when the powers of absolutism and 'of Eastern Eu rope are stricken with paralysis—this is the moment when France abandons the cause of liberty in Spain, when she passively stands by, and sees Bilboa, within sight of her shores, fall beneath the blow of a pen sioner of Russia, for Don Carlos is no other. This is the moment when France persists in crying peccavi, in humbling herself and her dynasty, depriving the latter of its moral force abroad, ,as well as its popula rity at home, and of going on fearfully to preserve a factitious amity at all price, as if the sole object of Government were to allow Louis Philippe to reign in peace for life, leaving a war of succession 'as the heti= tage of hit This is the time when the Arnbassa dorsof these hostile and absolutist Powers arc allowed to beard in his ow❑ capital and court the chosen Atli. narch of the French nation, oy Aviaritig ter the ex-absolutist and defunct Monarch of `ranee, thereby giving patent and great entooraa ° ement to Carlist disafection in the conntty. Why, to reed • again to England, what would have been the (e;Onte pence here if a foreign Ambassador had paraded the streets of London itt mourning fOt -.Tallies It.; oir the Pretender ? We can ons Wen the mob *mild have flung the audacious envoy and his carriage into the Thames, or, if tie had escaped their just resentment, Walpole would have sent the proudest of them,out df the country within four-and-twenty hours, tut in Paris,. in 1836, his Sardinian Eltcellency puts on black, forsooth, having the respect of Henry V. before his eyes, instead of the respect for Louis Philippe, We shall sincerely regret should the warmth or bold ness of these remarks excite any feelings of atthOy hum in the King of the French, or itt his partisans. They are not meant to insult ] hot ttten to hurt, but to warn. We permit ourselves to use this language, be cause we are the friends of the present dynasty on the throne of France, and the uncompromising enemies of that rival branch which we see allowed to grow in power and in hope.—Morning Chronicle. The Radicals, to do them justice, do not want pluck, although their business is sometimes of a dis couraging nature—viz., to make speeches before slen der audiences, and to pay for dinners which it is phy sically impossible that in the present state of politics throughout this country they should have any stomach to eat. It is now considerably too late in the day to set about proving to the satisfaction of reasonable Englishmen, that an extensive change of feeling with regard to certain favourite measures of the movement party, and concerning likewise the merits and preten sions of certain men who hold a conspicuous rank as Whigs or Radicals (or both as occasion suits them), has occurred in almost every quarter of the kingdom. Here and there the spirit of headlong demOcracy, which tolerates no dominion but that of the mob, may per haps show fight a little longer, and even in conse quence of, and in proportion to, the general pressure of ' Conservatism upon the revolutionary power, may act in particular spots of the country with increased extra vagance and desperation. But the dissolution of Par liament, which under any Minister cannot be very dis tant, will make manifest to the most incredulous of the movement faction the truth of what we have now put forth, arrd will exhibit as a cruel set-off against some isolated instance of rallying republicanism, a steady revival of attachment to the Constitution throughout the average surface of society. We apprehend that Preston, in Lancashire, is one of those corners into which the off-scourings of Radicalism have been swept in the process of cleansing the wider and nobler ave nues of national sentiment: - It has long been a re ceptacle for movement rubbish. Its constituency, as well under the old system of election as the new, , has been among the worst in England, and its, Represen tatives, with doubtlesS some distinguished exceptions, have been for the most part on the outside of consti tutional hostility to the established principles of the monarchy. The ultra-Radicals of Preston, then, have been getting up a meeting and a dinner, to which were invited Colonel Thompson, a political economist and theoretical Destructive of the deadliest hue, and Mr. John Craufurd, of London, a gentleman better known, we believe, by his successful historiei or works on Eastern commerce, and his (not successful) attempts to push his way into Parliament, than by any figure he has ever made, as either an effective partisan, or an enlightened Statesman. The report says nothing as to the quality of the other persons assembled at this reputable muster. But, for the quality of the speeches, we are compelled to acknowledge that those of the two above-named gentlemen were such as could not have much overpaid the charge for the dinner, or the trouble of attending to them. In one characteristic both orators were preeminent--namely, in that conceited assump tion observable among men of shallow thought and cir cumscribed vision, which treats as a first principle'never to be changed or questioned, each and every conclusion which the speaker himself, whether through argument, prejudice or ignorance, may have arrived at, and whieh exclaims at the folly- or wickedness of all other men who hesitate to declare their partnership in his visions, and their readiness to cram his nostrums down the throats of the whole community. If it were worth while to strike a balance between things of such small intrinsic value, we should say that there was more of the composed arrogance which we have referred to in the discourse of the gallant lecturer from Hull than in that of the probationary candidate for Preston, the office, it seems, assigned to Mr. Craufurd, which latter perso nage descanted awfully upon the precedents for an or ganic change of the House of Lords, and joked with the solemn levity of an undertaker upon the number of mortal wounds which the Constitution had survived,- and the improvement it had exhibited after every such re suscitation. As for Col. Thomson, he was far too high minded to demonstrate any of the numerous odd things that he asserted, or to do more upon any subject than as became a professor laying down laws cx cathedra, to dogmatise, ca ll names , denounce, and dictate. He attempted, for instance, to describe the three parties in Great Britain—and began by classing the Conservatives as men who held " extreme" opinions, with a total forgetfulness that the leader of those Conservatives had not pledged himself, but proved himself, to be a sound and bold Reformer. He called the Whigs the mode. : rate party, whose opinions formed the medium be tween Conservative and Radical--quite overlooking the plain fact, that the single opinion firmly entertained by the Whigs, is as to the para moun t necess ity o f themselves continuing in office. With respect to the 'ballot, the House of Lords, and universal suffrage, the gallant colonel was as great, as all great drivellers are, upon such inspiring topics: his notion of the legitimate limit to the suffrage was this—to wit, that it would be inexpedient to grant it to any man who could not say " ay or no !" After thus fooling the -Prestonians to the top of their bent, the gallant professor seriously advised them to look out for a candidate who should emulate himself in wisdom, however hopeless such a search might prove. Mr. Craufurd was not .less sanguine - than his predecessor in the triumphant destinies of the Destructive principle, and hardly less edifying in his history of its pr ogress , or o f th e e vils which it was to remedy. The truth is, that the whole affair was a dull and dismal farce.— Times. It will not requite much practice in political divina tion to predict that the approaching Glasgow festival will throw little additional light on the intended Par liame:iiary tactics of the Conservatives. The habitual ,caution of the Right Honourable Baronet who is to be the lion of the evening, would seem sufficiently to gua rantee so much ; but in order to render assurance doubly sure on this very sensitive point, an active nego ciation has been for some time in progress, and has we are informed, terminated in an express stipulation, that all debateable topics are, as much as possible, to be avoided, as it is intended to call into action upon this momentous occasion the whole disposable force of the Tories, or at lenst so many of them as can sug gest any decent pretext for their presense : it was in dispensable that the leaders of sections in the motley array should present some appearance of external uni formity, and that could only be effected by a resolution to adopt a diScreet taciturnity on all questionable sub jects. Sir Robert Peel, as the mouthpiece of the faction, will be left to express himself in those plausible common-places and ambiguous generalities of which he is, so consummate a master' while his noble and learned friend Lord Lyndhurst has consented (like the notorious Doctor Duigenan, on one of the debates on the Catholic question) t o be " muzzled" on this particular question. We have stated in the pre ceding paragraph what has come to our know ledge from certain accredited depositories of Tory intelligence. That they have correctly described the difficulties which :impeded the late Tory nego tiations, and the convenient stipulation by which they were obviated, we are entirely satisfied ; but when .they wish us to take it for granted that Lord Lyndhurst will grace the festivities of. the Northern Academicians with his presence, we must acknowledge we are on that point a little sceptical. Some extensive changes in the domestic establishment of the Learned Pensioner, to which we lately alluded, would seem to imply that his return to England was indefinit e ly postponed ; and, if we are not egregiously mis- THE SttN, LofSWON, THURSDAY, DECEMI3VR iB3d. itirofuml, a new fascination has been added o the already almost irresistible ottntetitiM of the Frenett capital. Tmrd tiyhfiliist, too, is not the individtial litely palace hiiziself spontaneously in 4 sittiation in which his position must be that at bound to the chariot-N:yheels 'vietbrioits and detested rival, &Thy !" There!. hit fig patise to take breath !, Not a word taf it ts °ids: lid iitit be giNieCted of this un kirid attack up.oti. the , tranquil tetiremerit df .040 horiest Lord Altlidip;" If .He had encountered rid . Hertel' 'hoslility tllati °his he Might ,haVe slept away the feniairider of His days among hig .ariA His bee.,;es; fOrgettitig.gradnally that He ever puzzled hhri selt With firldilciai gpeetiliatithiS, dr 6tdriiSh6d Other§ with dietotiCal Hig the provemerit of plorighS dr the aggrandisement of turiliA arid recreathig himself in congenial society with discus sidriS iiped the merits of Mangel-worzel l or the excel lences of oilcake. The rude d.sEttlit by which 1118 tielOt... - ful dreams have been disturbed is from the hand of the Constitutional—the able organ of that party, by which, through four Sessions of Parliament, eulogy was ex hausted upon the labours of the candid Lord Althorp, the industrious Lord Althorp, the patient Lord Al thorp, the intelligent Lord Althorp. Four years ago Lord Althorp was the one heaven-born Minister, with out whose energy, and affability, and perseverance, the Reform 13ill could not have been carried. TWo years ago Lord Althorp was the indispensable ally, whose defection was enough to put Lord Grey out—whose adhesion was necessary to help Lord Melbourne in. Now, we quote the Constitutional again. " The re sult of his reputation fur honesty is the fame of having retarded Worm more than any other single Reformer that has flourished in the present reign." To be more serious, however, we recom , mend the whole article upon which we have been commenting to , the attention of our readers. It is all clever, and it is almost all true. The wonder is that any newspaper, that any Parliament, that any mob, ever thought Lord Spencer less a blockhead than newspa pers, Parliament, and mobs henceforth will confess him to be. And we have in the discovery of Lord Spencer's nothingness one more lesson for• those who set their affections upon the vanities of popular favour, the cheerings and the shootings, the address of the numerous meeting, and the freedom of the ancient city —the halfpenny ballad, and the penny cup. " How are the mighty fallen I" In the language of their old admirers, Lord Grey is a driveller, Lord Brougham is a lunatic, Mr. Spring Rice is assured that his office is not worth three months' purchase, and the sound of Lord Spencer's voice reminds his friends of an often quoted reflection, " 'With how little wisdom the world is governed !"—Morning Post. • end pti•niitteA to siieali it ill; he ninst be con tent to . SUbniit his eXpressibris, eiteirial . dictatidn: the Tories may again and again aSsilie its of the sink `eirity df the reconciliation which has been hastily patched up between their leaders, but again and again we must repeat our fixed incredulity: We litio* ; quite as well as our CoMdMitiVe histrUctors, the genuine ttlitiMents of their chiefs, and we have no hesitation in declaring our conviction, that no two public men in England are more irreconcilably hostile than the Ex-Premier and the Ex-Chatteellor. Con formity of character has ever been held to be the only foundation tot enduring friendship. Let us endeavour to tty Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst by the test, and then examine the result. In the fOrmor we see an individual cold, jealous, austere, and unsocia ble ; a rigid economist, but a punctual paymaster ; pure, or, at least, circumspect, in his morality ; and pharisaically decorous in religious observances. In the latter we have a man fond of society, and de voted to pleasure- 2 —lavish in his expenditure, and not over scrupulous of the sources from which it is to be supplied—indifferent to the ceremonials of religion, and careless of the construction put on that indifference. When we add to these discordant elements of indivi- dual character the aspiring ambition common to both, we can be at no loss to pronounce the utter impossibi lity of a cordial unanimity where bitter dissension was but lately flagrantly notorious. But it is idle to in dulge in speculation when facts must so soon deter mine the points at issue. The Tories assert that Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst are cordially recon ciled ; we affirm that their differences are as irrecon cileable as ever. The Tories undertake fur the pre- sence of the Learned Baron' at Glasgow; we know that his appearance there is extremely problematical, or, to speak more plainly, we do not believe he has any intention of exhibiting himself. The Tories as sert that Sir Robert Peel will make a full and explicit declaration of the motives and principles which will guide his conduct in the approaching Session ; we, on the contrary, are perfectly convinced that the Right Hon. Baronet will do nothing of the kind, but will confine himself to the old stock clap-trap of his " rea diness to correct all proved abuses," reserving to him self the interpretation of those cabalistical words which in his vocabulary may mean anything or nothing, as the circumstances of the moment may seem to require. —Morning Advertiser. Daniel, who was some time ago saluted by Mr. George Evans, the Whig Member for the county Dublin, with the dignified title of " Hackball, King of the Beggars ;" is making a sturdy battle for the preservation of, his mendicant dynasty, which he na turally fears would be pretty considerably shaken by an Irish poor law, to rescue the suffering masses of his countrymen from the most deplorable wretchedness that ever tried the endurance' of human nature.—Da niel, whose keen sense of his own interest has always taught him that the 'charity which begins at home and ends there is best, naturally fears that, by the estab lishment of a legal provision for the Irish poor, the tributary streams of eleemosynary bounty might be di verted to the support of the starving thousands, from the engulphing reservoir of contribution to himself. The Fieschi plot to blow up at once the whole House of Orleans did not apparently create more horror in the mind of the Citizen King, than the poor law plot in flicts upon the alarmed sensibilities of the " King of the beggars." He views it as a deeply-laid conspiracy, to deprive him of his Royal monopoly in alms. He sees in the efforts making by humane and benevolent persons, to raise his starving countrymen from their state of naked and dunghill destitution, a premeditated design to reduce, if not abolish, that lucrative nuisance " the rent." In this endangered state of his throne and Royal revenue, his tatte;demalion Majesty bran dishes his sceptre, alias his gaberlunzie staff, and lays about him on all sides with the blind fury of the giant Despair. We have, of course, come in for a share of the knocks ; but that dOes not discom pose us much, for we fear nothing from Daniel, as we are not exposed to the treachery of his friend ship or the defamation of his praise. Encompassed and shaken as the mendicant dynasty is by such dangers, we would, to show we can return good for evil, advise ,Daniel to insist upon - his political dependants, the ci-devant " base, bloody, and brutal Whigs," passing a law to make it a crime punishable with the penalties of high treason to his crown and dignity, for any:person or persons to compass and ima gine the subversion of his sovereign power, and the abolition of the princely revenue which he levies, much after the fashion of the harquebuss-beggar in " Gil Blas," upon the pockets of the poorest people in the world. The proposing of a poor law for Ireland, ex cept such a one as was intended $o be a mere delusion, should of course constitute an overt act of such trea= soil, and be punished accordingly—for Daniel is a genuine autocrat in his way. He sees in every honest advocate for the famishing poor of Ireland an enemy ; lie sees in every rival beggar, as some of the " pa triots" who would follow the same occupation have found to their cost, a traitor to his power, and he never hesitates on those occasions to shew that, in maintain ing the regal supremacy, to which Mr. Evans ad mitted the validity of his title, lie— " Bears, like the Turk, no brother near the throne." But we are told that a Roman Catholic priest—a Mr. O'Malley, of some such name—has had the har dihood to rise in rebellion against Daniel, and carry re solutions against him in favour of a poor law for Ire land, even in his own Intimidation Society,. This to many observers appears passing strange—for ilitr own part we see nothing in the affair that might io be a matter of especial wonder. As far as public opinion goes in, Ireland, the question of poor laws has been carried for some time, notwithstanding all the efforts of Daniel, at one time by wheedling and cajolery, at another by fierce and violent opposition, and even by detpotic denunciation, to prevent it. In this state of thiAgs, the wily priest, who, by his speech, appears to be no mean proficient in the science and tactics of Loyola, stepped upon the arena—advocated a poor law with the most energetic zeal, and with convincing argu ments ; but then he proposes that the support of the poor shall be the confiscated property of the Church ; in other words, that the fund for public charity shall be public plunder. Who will say that Daniel and the priest, though they appear to differ, do not thoroughly understand each other ? Daniel's arguments go to show that a poor law would be impolitic—the priest's, that it must be impracticable ; for it can have no other funds than such as are to be derived from a system of plunder, which can only be effected by means of a sweeping revolution. To reduce all the Protestant clergymen of Ireland to a state of pauperism, that the poor may enjoy the clerical revenues, is a new way of robbing Peter to pay Paul. The enunciation of so monstrous ,a proposition is obviously intended to aid, not to oppose the Whigs and O'Connell, in shuffling off the question of an Irish poor law next Session to some indefinite period, by showing that, even though the Irish public have agreed to the principle, they place it on such a footing, as to the mode of carrying it into , practice, as must, of necessity, render its con sideration more difficult than ever. Thus father O'Malley's reasoning goes in aid, not against the pre servation of Daniel's dynasty and revenues ; and, under pretence of advocating the claims of the help less poor, dooms them, in effect, to continued and hopeless starvation.—Morning Herald. " If we were not made feelingly and most painfully sensible of the presence of men in the Cabinet not a whit wiser or more fitted for the greatest labours of a Statesman than Lord Althorp was, we should be apt to look back upon his Lordship's leadership of the House of Commons, and the infatuation of the thou sands who bade the Romans mark him, and write his speeches in their books,' as idle pliantasies, and the dreams of some crazy contributor to that old al manac, history.' It is difficult to contemplate as a reality the sway which the mind' of Lord Althorp once exercised, and that so recently, over the mind' of the public—we should rather say, perhaps, the ab solute dominion which his personal qualities held over the political councils of the country. Seldom has utter incapacity as a Statesman exercised all, not to say much mere than the ordinary functions of intellectual aucen- Very large quantities of potatoes are at present, shipped from Havre for England and Ireland. The price there of middling potatoes is from 20d. to 22d. per cwt., which is considered high ; but if the demand for exporta tion should continue, it is expected to be much higher. A brisk export trade is also carrying on in articles of luxury as well as of necessity ; turkeys are being sent off to Eng land by hundreds at a time. The price of a moderate sized turkey is five francs. In the outer office of the Masters in Chancery, in Southampton-buildings, and placed prominently over the fire-place, in the view of all suitors and others who have to do with the Court of Chancery, is an elaborately-co loured engraving of a Lunatic Asylum, at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge. The suit instituted by Mademoiselle Grisi against her husband, M. Gerard de Meley, for a declaration of the nullity of their marriage, came to a final hearing on Friday before the Tribunal of Premiere Instance ; and, although the lady lost her cause, it seems she has gained her real object by obtaining a confirmation of the legality of her union. From the proceedings at the trial it appears that in May last the fair cantatrice was married in England to M. de Meley, who, being a minor, had the formal consent of his mother. On her return to France doubts were insinuated against the validity of the marriage, first, on the ground that the parties had not resided in the parish where the cere mony was performed the time required by the English laws ; and secondly, that the declaration of the marriage had not been made within the period required by the laws of France after their return into this country. The first objection was overruled by a reference to the dicta of Judge Black stone in his Commentaries, and other eminent English juris consults ; and the other was pronounced to be equally un tenable, although it involved penalties upon the fair plain tiff, the defendant, and his mother, of 500 f. each, which the Court assessed accordingly, and at the same time decreed the marriage to be good and indissoluble.—Galignani's _Messenger. A case was tried in the Supreme Court of Massa chussetta, in which Mr. Charles Kemble was defendant. The suit had its origin in some misunderstanding which that gentleman, when performing in America, had with the manager of the Tremont theatre, at Boston. The action was brought to recover from Mr. Kemble that sum of 3,000 dollars, paid to him conditionally by the above manager. Mr. Kemble offered to play at the Boston theatre on the same terms as he had previously received at the Park Theatre, New York—half the gross receipts of the house. The Boston manager proved that Mr. Kemble only divided the profits at the Park, after a certain sum had been deducted for expenses by the manager of that establishment. The jury returned a verdict for the ma nager—damages 2,500 dollars. Mr. Kemble's Counsel moved for a new trial, which was granted, and the case will come before the Court again in March.—American Paper. An inquest was on Monday taken at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Harriet Weymore, aged 36, who was burnt so as to occasion death within a few hours. Mr. John Welkins deposed that he was living at 45, Lower Stamford•street ; the deceased was his housekeeper ; on the Friday'night he was awoke by screams, and on going down stairs found the deceased burning dreadfully ; with as sistance he got the flames out as well as he could ; her clothes, including her stays, were completely burnt off ; she told him she had been sitting before the fire, and fell asleep„ and was awoke by the pain of the flames the were scorching her ; she was carried to the hospital, where she died early the next morning. Another witness said she told him that she had put a log of wood upon the fire before she sat down in front of it, and there fell asleep ; it was an easy chair, stuffed at the back and sides with hay, with a covering over it. It was burnt nearly to pieces. Verdict Accidental Death." TILE WHIGS.—In consequence of the course of observations which the Free Press of Cheltenham has thought it right to adopt, in condemnation of the policy pur sued by the present Ministers, Lord Segrave and his bro ther have withdrawn their subscriptions to that Journal. A correspondence on the subject of some real or alleged rumour, that the 'Free Press had been bought over by the Tories, has taken place between the parties before named and:Messrs. Harper and Symons, gentlemen connected with that Paper. In the letter of the latter gentleman is the fol lowing passage :—" I do not• underrate the rancorous hos tility of the Tory faction. On the contrary, my estimate of its magnitude and virulence, is the precise reason why I condemn the meagre energy and vigourless measures by which this hostility has been met. Is it then surprising that in the midst of the national disappointment—in the fifth year of the Reform Bill era—after another nearly sterile Session of Whig Radical union—without one valid gain over our foe, and with their added victories over us—is it, I ask, unnatural that the Radicals should be averse to the concession of a third renewal of that aid and union which has twice proved so barren and bootless ? Is it without reason that the Radicals require better security for the energy es sential to the fruition of the benefits of union, ere they again afford it : and do you really see no practical advantage,' to be derived to the cause of Reform from the stimulus to the Ministry which the marked discontent of the country has afforded ?" WELSH CHURCH. —The Carnarvon Herald of Saturday, contains the form of a petition to Parliament., for the reform of the many and grievous anomalies which dis figure and impair the utility of the Church Establishment in that section of the kingdom. We extract the following passages from the petition: —" That it is unquestionable that every one of the Prelates, who at present preside over the Dioceses of Wales, are destitute of all knowledge of the language of the Welsh people, and many English Clergymen, totally or nearly ignorant of the Welsh lan guage, have in consequence been promoted to parishes in which that language exclusively prevails, though the twenty fourth Article of the Church of England declares that the celebration of the rites of religion in a language not under stood by the people, is a practice repugnant alike to, the usages of the Primitive Church, and to the Spirit of the Sacred Scriptures ; and as those rites arc required to be administered by Diocesans as well as Pastoral Clergy, they submit such appointments are at direct variance with the spirit of that article. . . . That a great portion of the richest livings in North \Vales are in the hands of indivi duals who are absentees from the Principality ; while, on the other hand, many of the most populous districts are left to the care of Curates, who are barely provided with the necessary means of existence, and certainly not of fulfilling with due efficiency the strict duties of their pastoral charge. . . . That as a striking proof of the extent of the mal administration of the Church in Wales, your petitioners may advert to the appalling fact, that a larger portion of the Tithes of North Wales is, at present, absorbed in the repair of Cathedrals—in the support of Colleges and Bishoprics in England 7 --by the Bishops of Wales and their relations — and by Incumbents, who are either absent from the Bene fices, or unacquainted with the language of their flocks— than is enjoyed by the whole body of the working Parochial Clergy ; and that consequently so much is withdrawn from the spiritual and moral efficiency of the Welsh Church." OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASS ETII ANC E COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, 11.:/137tiDAIXT4 DEC. 20. Pricy IZira;:,..:l I'l , Vnid /1 , : of • IZ I CANA I :).•' per )01assf., Annum. Paid. Share. 1 - at 8 , net coin Ashton 001 1 1,Mlnam ...Avera•,e Oil. Fs : oh, 142 t,182 4/. A s inhy..le_le-Zo3CS• ~.....0 Average 113/. sb. 65 ' *Ai" . . Basiogstoke , ,vs..' •• • • 10114 sh. el 1,005 r•s, , a Rreciomalt aind Abergaveoo7. , ...... 430 . sin. 10e n 000) 1 _16,h. 0 ! . 03 . siSJoyiinels'am, (..10th share ........ Pl'• fir 711. .217 -1060 Ditto :.9 - IN Lio . otpool J unet...1951. Eh. ICU pd 3.21 (i)t). . ... .964;ewater M 4 ii'Y, ,,, n , i j ton ....lOW. sh. all pd .. 6 . 4 i R ;al. Cheliner and lilackiimSsi ...: ............ 100/. sh. 0,2 Coventry , :f .. ••400/. sh. 725 4,515 ...... ..: ( ;7190 . Averagt.l 311. O.S. 1 1 0 d. oh'. 3 2,i1(i , ) , .- 4t. Os. i..! Qv .... . 10 1 1 . oh'. 78 .•, , ,o 71. 1/0/1)v ..... . 2 0 ,000 Danube and oko'll4//sts.‘ll/. 13s. ld, 221/. pd s i ;.,47 - 0- 3/. Ellesmere. and Che.ster...itikverage 133/. sit 80 0:1i I et'. Erewash .s , 001. sh. 5 , .0 .1/ V 1,207 041. Forth and Clyde Average 41-is •. 0). sh. 610 11.-00 pji . fird!!:.! .. 10 1)(''''' 0 In ! ATP , 213 2,.4. 1 .1n 14 Grand 01 1 1100 0 lOW. sh. : 41 ' 1.51 ,4 • • Grand Surfey - -0 , „ lt 41/. sh. 20,000'. 11. per cent. 1/itto l (Optional) Luau :1 , ,t,. 1001. 70 3,09. i Grand Wosrorin • 10 0 sh all pd 000 131. Its. Sd. Glant.rgssoshires Average cost 11:1. ills, *l. 23 /411 Iot. Grantham .. .. 13114 #l, 2112 6,":14 14 13s I ludderstis Itl .......... liforage 57/. Os. lid. sh. 341 100 ...... ... Kensing) ,r 1 .............. . ...... r,..oltollsh. all pd. , 10 25,00.3 14 21. Kennet .01 Avon, Average 31if. It.'4. 10d. sh. 22 2,8)171 VI. Leads ant) Liverpool 1011. sh. 530 3451 02/. Leicsler 1404 sh, 190 1.897 41. 111 s. IRicester and Northampton... Aver '.'.3/. Ito. 77 2,4110 101. MmtinoiitSisliire :r 0,....,...r. 1001 100/. s h . 20 0 200 50 11+1. Mcitmi ilwebray .: .. : ,.:,... I r ,.........••••• 500 27/. Mersey and 11401 .r,....r, ..... ..:.,. 1010. sh. 58 1 3,0901 1/. 10. s. Macclesfield.-- ........... .... • lOW. sh. all pd. 54 211 17/. Neath ............................ar .: . : lOOO, 011, 30., 1,706 51.3 Oxford ........................... 0.0 1004 Si). ssiii 2, 100 /. Peal. Forest .. ....... ...Average alio itt 79/. sh. 104 21,11,1 12s. (as Londoo) Aver. 33/. ICs, f.d. Ms. 16 Regent's 5,609 Gt. per cent. nocialale .................. , ..... Average 85/, eh. 121 000 84 Shropshire ................ ..• V.:51. sit, 140 800 Cl. 10s. Somerset Coal ................ rr..., , 150/. sit. )53 3,6 0 0/. 43 per cent Ditto hock 1001 Stock 0,12/. 10s. sh. 114 700 40/. Staftind and Worcester ,,,140/. sh. 73d 1001 ph '24.3 500 94 Shrewslittry 1400 WI, 063 300 Si. Stourbridge .0.0 , 0 ...... 3,617 21. is. Stratford-on -Avon ...Average 791.95. t4d. sh. 50 0 591 12/. Swansea .......................... 0 100 /. sh. 02 3,7ii2 14 Is. S eve rn and Wye :yid Railway ...Av i. :3 i 54. , s ‘ i h n. 55 1. 5 ,4 2,6091 stn. 321. lits. Trent and M erse y , 1 share 8,149 ......... Thames n.I Medway...Aver. 191 . ss. Sd. sit'. 2 1,0005h.1 l g. Warwick ale! Birmingham 1001. sh 200 1,00015h.3 980 1) , ,,. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 210 8 ,000 4/. Os. Worcest-4 and Birmingham...A v. 784 00 sh e - 2 5,000 225. Wilts ana Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. NI. sh. 21 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 106 ~, .., Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45 905 14 Wey and Arun llO/. sit. 224 DOCKS. 2,600& /3p. c. Commercial OlOOl. sh. 56 1,06545 h. 3 498,66711. 6 per ct. East India . citcals 117 3,239,3104/. 50s. p. ct. London Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 5/. per ct. \Vest India Stock 106 0.0111 21.193. Bristol ,3244 Stook 5/. per cent. Ditto Note s, various amounts ll5 6S ,352,752 I per cent. St. K athariiie Sto 87 , - 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto B onds lOl4 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tor 10 years l9ll Shoreham Harbour 2.500 ........ Deptford Pier BRIDGES. 1,600 10s. flammersmitt • 591. oh. 20 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. 84. sh, 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 73 per cent. 5,000 ..... ... Waterloo ..... . 100/. sin. IS 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6(l/. pd 5,000 198. 3d. Ditto , New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 15 00,000/. 5/. per cent. Ditto B ondslls 6,000 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. ai. sh. 161 AS•WRANCt: COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs A lbion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 79 50,000 M el d . cent.} Alliance, British & Foreign 100 /. s h. 1041. 3pd 11 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Ma rine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 5 4 50/. sh. 54 pd 13 1 24,000 41 per sh. At1a5...... . .. . ... 1,000 Ish. 5/. Birmingham I ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fi re 230/. sh. 50/ , pd 41 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 504 sin. 51. pd 64 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, Bleth..al,&c. Life, 1001,sh. 12110 s pd 34 les County 1001, sh. 101. pd 4'l 4,000 21 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. Sit 51. pd 11 00 1 -5 P er Wnt i E • 1 ite lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 375 ' 2 Land 301 bs. Economic . 2,271 225. per cent. European Li ic 0 0/.all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 2 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 155 20,000 51. Guardian lOO4 sh. '2731 pd 32 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 50/. sh. 5!. pd 54 2,400 54 7s. 6d. Imperial Fir • 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 125 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10/. ixl 10 13,459 12s. per sh. Indemnity Marine 100 /. sh. 8 /. p d 161 ,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 34 Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 28 5,000 10s. London, Fira 25/. sin. 121. 103. pd 151 3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 151 30,000 5!. per cont. Palladium Lila 50). sin. 2/. pd 218 s OA 50,000 Protector Elie 2O/. sh. 2/. pd IBs 6d 2,500 1/. Provident Lite lOO/. sin. 104 pd 29 100,000 , 5!. per cent. Rock Life 0 0/. sh. 21. pd 6 689,220/ 51. per cont. Royal Exchange Stock... 220 (1,000 5 per cent. University Into lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. p 0 JOINT SfOCK BANKS 25,000 Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 'Fl. s h. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 50/. sh. 5/. pd 30,000 4 per cent. London anti Westminster...loo/ pd :3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd 05,000 Liverpool 100/ sh. 10/. pd 50,000 6 per eent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 15/. pd Discount 28 , 000 71 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/. pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland-100/. sh. 25/. pd 20, 1 00 National Bank of Ireland 5O/. sO. 1241. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial En g . lOO/. sh. 251. pd 10,000 Gloucestershire 504 sh. 10/. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 5s 6d Bath 2O/. sb. 16/. pd British 4O/. sh. 16/. pd s 000 r 5/.percent:t Ditto Provincial 20 /. sh. 19 p d " Land Bs. SLS 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 504 sh. 4,250 210 s Bristol 2o'. sit. 1,500 31 los Brighton 201. sin. 750 3/ les Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 41; Continental Consolidated lOO/. 6211. pd 1,000 WI. City of Loudon 1,1100 6/. Ditto , Ne w lOO/. sh. 604 pd 4,000 41. les. Equit able 423/. I. pd 10,000 24 per cent. Imperial sosh. 800 5/, per cent. Isle of Tli anet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 2,350 6/. per cent. I ndepend en 504 t 9O/. s 39/. pd h. all pd 9,009 34 per cant. Phrenix .... sh. 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff . - 100/. sh. sh. 80/. pd 4,000 South Plotropohtan 50/. 19/. pd 46/. pd 8,2(0 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 9/. per cent Wakefield 251 sh. . sh. 12,000 3/. Westminster Chart ered 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 600 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/, pd WA'rEll. WORKS. 4,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 125/. pd 2 . 4,443 61. East London 100/. sin. 136; CI 5,500 21 lOs nrAnd Junction ~..Average 41/ 18s. 4d. sh.•so 2,000 2/. Kent . 100/. sh. 45 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 305 1,500 2/ 10s Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/ 151 Manchester and Salfor d lOO/. sh 53 0 4 per cent, So o uth M Lndon 100/. sh. 8 9,2 00 04 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. ild. sh. 794 1.360 11 148 YorIRONk Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 sin. 3 5 RAILWAYS. 2,500 Aylesbury 2O/. sh. 1/. pd. Birmingham and Derby Si. pd 774 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 10l pd 94 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 05 15,1)00 Bristol and Exeter lOO4 sh. spd 3 660 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western-1004 sh. 73/. 51 Clarence lOO/. oh. 1004 pd 51i 12 3, ,00 000 0 8,000 Dublin and Kilke nn y 100/ . 0 0 04 igt 24 60,0)00 Eastern Counties '2s/. sh. 21. p.i 2 1 7 Grand Junction 1004 sh. 501. p I 1 Great North of England 2/. id 25,080 Great Wrsstern lOO4 s h. 30/.OA 40 JO° 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 814 ,000 Hull and Selby 5O l. sh. 5/ . pd 3 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001 . sh. 5/. p d 7,100 Leeds and Se l by 100 sh. 4 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....50/. sh. all pd 48 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpo ol and Manchester...lo( /.sh. 100/. pd 255 Ditto Quarter Shares O5/. pd 61 • 10,0011 London and Br i ghton - 1004 sh. 5/ pd ' T 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201 sin. 1/. pd 04 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sin. 21. psi 1 4 80'4) Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. sh. 0/. pd 1- 12,000 London and 131ackwall 501 sh 3/ pd 1# 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich "0l. sh. '204 pd 10°' 25,000 London and Birmingham -.1004 al). 70/. 101 143 ' 00,1.00 London and Southampton.... - 0!. sh. 004 pd 22 7,000 London and Croydon 28/.. sin. 131. p 0 97 12,000 London Grand Junction 71. sh. 21. }A lf 10,0110 Manchester South Union 1010. sin. 20. pd 4 # r. North Midland 1004 sh. 10!.1x; 113 Northe••a and Eastern 1094 sh. 34 pd 33 2,600 Preston and Wyse 501. sh. Si. tat 25,000 1, 0 011 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOlO. sin. 240 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3/. pd Si MINES. (1,000 Albion Copper 51. sit. 3/. pd (11 4,000 Alten 13/. sh. 121. 100 pd • 134 111,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1004 sh. all Ind Si Ditto Subscription '251. pd 31 2,000 Boinnos ISO/. sit all pd 125 10,000 11. 10i Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. 0i0.......35/. sh. 20/, pd •-23 6,0 , 0 Macanbas & Cocaes United...2s/.5h.23, 1 /. pd 8 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 83/. psi 01 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company "0/. sh. 201. pd 1i 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 01. pd 9 00,011 British Iron 5O/. sh. 511/ pd 41 6,000 British Copper Cata Branca... 634 pd 61 Candonga 7i/. pd 71 10,000 11. Copiapo 21)1. sin 123/ psi 17 2 R , r)oo Columbian, iss. 5/. pin...-. 55/. sin. 55/. pd 2 (1 , •150 31. English 2 General Mining Association-00/. l Bl l n. 18 1d '2 20,000 1 ( 5/1p i il t. 9 6,155 Mexican Company 10,0. sh 541/. pd 2,3 n,oou Polberon Consols 10/. sh. Si. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 1 501, IA la) 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....40/. sit, all pd 0 Das L Scrip rl Ditto New Scrip 7/ Ind 03 West Cork 701. sh. 50/.IA 36 LITERARY INS'OITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...... ...75gs. sh. 501 1,5110 London University 100/. sh. all p 0 231 TOO • King' College 100/. pd 32 6,000 6/.lpe i r ss c ' ent.: 10,000 MISCELLANEOUS. I tt i i t s i t s r i a , lAiainneArgicraincuLltatturdal.c....rito./.nsyh 201.,zy1..1:)(1 31:71 10,000 tit per cent. Cana la Company 10)1. sh. 23/. pd 31. 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan l l5 City Bonds, 4 per cent lnt 15,000 14/. General Steam Navigation ...151.:h. 13/. pd 25 101, per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 19 London Caoutchouc Company 2tl. pd 3 New Brunswick Land Company 281 pd 25; 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd WO 9,6:13 51. per cent. Ditto New 1011/. sh. 45/. pd 810 4,000 1 liames Tunnel . 501. sh. all pd 8 10,000 Van Iris ner.'s Land 1110/. sh. 171. pd 14 2,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, • DEC. 13, 1836. BANKS. /,500,1101i. 61, p. et. Ban': 01 Scotland 93/. 6s fiM. sh. all pd 269/. 2,000,01(1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 11)51. .500,0 i 6/, ki p. et. British Linen Company 1001.5 h. all pa 245/. 3,000,00( 1 1. 0!. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001.14 1021. 5,0t19,01;0/. sp. et, National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 16/, 2,001,0001. 5/. p. et. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 69/. 4,000,004 4p. O. Western 01 Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 361. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25‘,0005h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 204 sh. 1/. pd 27s ',500 sp. ct. H ercu les lOOl. sh. 101. pd I'l 10s. 100000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10i. oh. all pd 71 I B+, 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 151. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 16! Os 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 141 Ss 100,000 • MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canal 50/. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated 96/. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb..Joint Steck Water 25/. sh. all pd 364 Carron . Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 45 0 /. 2,000 , 41 IS per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sli. :11. pd 411 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 204 sh. 161. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd &T/.. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 'W. sh. all pd 6! 4al. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas ` , ol.sh. all pit 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh 9nd Da'Keith Railway...soLO. 55/. 3,000 5* per cent. Equitable Loan Company...2sl. sh. 91, pd 10 SHIPPING INTELLIGI:NCIi. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS Arr- THE C TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 21. The John Esdale, Askey , from Quebec; Gaston, Lan bubger, Kiel; City of Glasgow, Pairburn, Ilan:hurgh; Au gusts, D e laponge, Gravelines ; Columbine, KciDedy, Leg horn; Rossendale, Friend , Be rbiee ; Tourist, Whiteogibcp Antwerp; St. George, Manson, Pera. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADENG. The Lavinia, Brown, for Rio Janeiro ; Queen Samson, Murray, Havre; Attwood, Strannack, Rotterdam; Samson , Sturges, New York. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Norval, Mitchell, for Teneritfe; Alexander, Carz,ll, Lisbon; Monarch, Fox, Havre. CLEAREDPUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The St. Charles, Muscat, for Calais ; 'Liverpool, Godfle)s New Orleans; Aurora, Westman, Gottenhurgh. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20. The Ambassador, Upton, from New Orleans ; Diligent, Fletcher, Maracaibo; Amity, Jefferson, Campeaeby ; Char lotte, Swan, Quebec; John, Dampsey, Quebec; Malabar, Frobisher, Bombay; Louisa, Ball, St. John's, N.B. ; Mary Ann Peters, Mills, Quebec; Cervantes, Rogerson, Cam peachy. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Heyworth, Evans, for Africa; Giin, Wilkinson, Char leston; Thomas Carter, Kelley, Demerara; Veracity, Evans , St. Thomas's. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Walter, Yorke, for Philadelphia ; Ocean, Brig g s, Bal timore ; Fairfield, Slack, Savannah ; Mary, Corkan, Derby haven ; Friends, Monte Video ; Elea nor Laidmans, Calcuta. SAILED. The Garrick, Robinson, for New Yor k ; Hibernia, Wilson, New York ; United States, Harvey, New York ; Southerner , Tibhcts, New York; Hark Away, French, New York; Solon, Wood, Pensacola ; Heath, Cooper, Africa ; the Parkfield, ll , lcAulay, New Orleans; Susquehanna, Cropper, Philadel phia. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyhead, inward-bound, the Crown, from Calcutta; Maria, Quebec ; Highlander, Quebec. EAST INDIA. The Adelaide, Guthrie, from Bombay, off Weymouth, sailed Aug. 25. Arrival at Madeira.—The Meg Merilies , Nov. 23, from London and Plymouth, and sailed Nov. 24, for the Cape. Arrivals' at Batavia.—The Duxburg, Giddings, Aug. 23, from the Mauritius ; the Bellona, Aug. 24, from Rotterdam ; the Henriette en Henri, Aug. 25, from Amsterdam; th e Maria, Aug. 25, from Rotterdam ; the Jane Brown, Aug. 27, from the Clyde ; the Catharina, Aug. 29, from Calcutta ; th e Neptune, Aug. 29, from Samarang, and sailed Sep t. 2, for Nantes ; the b llet Schoon, Sept. 1, from Amsterdam ; the Mirairius, Sept. 3, from Middelburgh. Departures from Batavia.—The Eliza Jane , Jane, Mollett and Alfred, Jameson, Aug. 28, for Singapore ; the Tao:ploy Sept. 1, for China. Arrivals in the Straits of Sunda.—The Saul, Winter, Aug, 2s, from Liverpool for Singapore ; the Mattakeesit, Aug. 27r from Canton for New York ; the Sumatra, Aug. 28, c from Canton for Boston ; the Alexander, Aug. 28, from Liverpool for Canton ; the Willem, Aug. 28, from Rotterdam for Ba tavia; the MarCo Bozzarris, Aug. 28, from Bantam ; the Ba tavia, Aug. 30, from Rotterdam for Batavia ; the Panther, Aug. 31, from Manilla for New York; the Elora, Aug. 3 1, from Glasgow for Batavia. Departure from Sourabaya.—The Adelaide, Aug. 21, for China. Ships Spoken With.—The Thal i a , Graham, f rom Liver pool to Calcutta, Nov. 4, lat. 5. N., long. 23. W.; the Lar kins, Ingram, from London to Calcutta, and Royal George, Richards, ti om London to Sydney, Nov. 9, in lat. 8, 14 '' long. 25, W., by the K i c ro ( wrecked at Pico) ; the Elizabeth, Relso, from London to the Cape, Dec. 7, in lat. 41. 30. N. , long. 11. 30. W., with loss of boats, having encountered fOrY bad weather. Lord Stuart de R o thsay , s new mansion at High Cliff, in the New Forest, Lc advancing towards completion but some time will elapse before it will be fit for the recep tion of the Noble Lord, who is travelling on the continent with his family. It requires little discrimination te? pereeiVe that, at no distant period, the agriculturists of Scotland will place their chief dependence on the produce of fat. cattle. The great increase of demand for that kind of stock, within the last few years, has led to the most beneficial results, and the fact that the demand can be accounted for on the most satisfactory grounds, leads to the conclusion, that it will be wise for the agriculturist to turn h i s attention very minutely to the best means of keeping up the supply. Necessity is frequently the mother of invention ; but a thriving de was is the bettor motive to advance both the quantity and qua lity of the goods required. This motive appears to be op?" rating very extensively among the farmers of Scotland, 1 ° regard to the rearing of fat cattle for the London market. Aberdeen Herald. TIIE EVIL EYE.—On Tuesday evening week, ° married woman, named Oades, residing at Mould Green, near Huddersfield, attempted to put a period to her exist- . once, by cutting her throat. She completely severed the windpipe, which separated several inches. Medical aid being speedily procured, the parts were united, so that she could articulate, but slight hopes were entertained of her recovery. She gave the following singular reason as the cause of the rash act :—Some months ago, a travelling writing master knocked at the door, which she opened, 0 04 he eyed her over in such a manner that she could not g et it off her mind, and she became firmly persuaded that 11° had bewitched her. She stated that she had frequently made the matter a subject of fervent prayer, but could not do away with the delusion. She appeared to be doing well until Sunday, when the stitches began to give waY' and on Monday night death pnt an end to her sufferings. -- * Halifax. Guardian. COALS FOR VOTES. The last number of the Lincoln Gazette has the following paragraph, so beauti' fully illustrative of Conservative characteristics :—A Mr' William Pickford Collett, who, it will be remembered, Wa s last week noticed in the Gazette as having offered a quar ter of a ton of coals to any Conservative freeman or eke tor of Boston who chose to apply for them, has issued 0 0 address, in which he announces himself a candidate for the suffrages of the electors, whenever a vacancy shall occur' He says—" When I state to you, that I coincide entirely with the sentiments which were expressed in the known address of Sir Robert Peel, to the electors of Tam worth, immediately on his last acceptation of office, it is unnecessary for me further to enlarge on my general pow' cal feelings." We have heard the gentleman is a barrister. SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS EAUP; An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of them warranted, and of various sizes, may be selected from, for the above price, T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cori' il l ' London. o f '-L containing a detailed list of the prices -- - es or 1g N. B. A pamphleu, Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, locks, &c., may be had iratis, will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. 11 II? TH S. On the 19th inst.. the wife of A. Hamilton, Esq., of Hamilton' terrace, St. John's-wood, of a daughter. On the 18th inst., at Smith-street, Chelsea , the lady of J. 11°- berts, Esq., of a daughter. On the 16th inst., the lady of A. Green, Esq. , surgeon. Bright° of a son. On the I9th inst., at Great Coratn-street, Brunswick -square' Mrs. .1. Blyth, of a son. On the 20th inst., at Eltham, the lady of Captain C. Roclifort Scott, of a son. On the 7th inst., at Rome , the lady of Ca p tait: Cornwallis Ric' ketts, of a son. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., at Scole , Nor folk, John Herbert Ca.riffeLEsl3l only'surviving son of the late Major J ohn Carige, of tte ilre Army, to Charlotte, seventh daughter of the late Geo. Ler, ''i ''' of Dickleburgh. On the 19th inst., at Kensington , Henr y Leake, Esq., of idler, Oxon, to Jane Wright, neice of the late Christopher Anders° Esq., of Ealing. Esq., of tiv , • • On the 16th inst., at Stirling, James Col q uhoun, Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, eldest s on of F. Colquhoun, -!`1,:. 1 ( of Edinburgh, to Mary Bryce, eldest daug hter of the late Ed" ' Alexander, Esq., of Pow is, Clackmannanshire. A Mr , On the 20th inst., at St. John's Church , Waterlco-mg",:t! : (-) f Hocking, of Newington-crescent, to Elizabe th, third ciao/gu Mr. Hicks, of anke, Swark. On the 17th i B nst., s a id t St. outh Margaret's, Westminster, G e orge ge_T net Pollock, Esq., son of D. Pollock , Esq. , K.C., of nartin late tj: House, St. James's-p4rk, to Julia, youngest daughter of the Wood, Esq., of Westminster. fulte On the 20th inst., at St. Margaret's, W es tminster, Francis Doi_ ,• Haviland, Esq., third son of Captain Ilstviland, of the Franc' of Burwash, Sussex, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. John IlentY, the same place. C ' S a On the 19th inst., at St. Margaret 's, Westminster, Mr.,.t,,,., very, of Hillingdon, to the widow of the late R. Tomlinson , ..'-' of Hillingdon Heath, Middlesex __.. DIED. ' of On the Ist inst., Clarissa, the wife of S. Peach Peach , Doi Tookington, Gloucestershire. On the 12th inst., at Jersey, aged 38, Wm. James Cockburn'' Esq., late of the 78th Reg iment. N o. Sarah On the 12th inst., at Cheltenham, Major Richard Pri tticl3r aged 59. Doro - On the 17th inst. , a t Morton House, Buckingham/ thea, widow of Colonel R. Browne. ii 1 ter On the sth inst., at Baltiboys, aged 5, Anne/ You n g est 4"g of T. G. Gardiner, Esq., of Bindon House, Somerse t. of On the 10 th in st., at Fulham, a ged 70, Mrs. Ann Wilkiewn.,:at, Avington, Han ts, widow of R . Wilkins on, Es q ., late of the Bet" South Lambeth. On the 17 th inst. , at Reading, John Hin ds, Esq., M o f 9ul" .D.; dalk, aged 73 . On the 18th inst., Juhn Johnstone, son of the W. W. f• 11 ` 101c ' Vicar of Trinity parish, Coventry. On the 18th inst., at Clifton, iohn Rickards, Esq. the On the Bth of Jul at Kurnaul, East Indies, Edward Heal' infant son of Major Tronson, 13th Light Infantry. .1 33' On the 13th inst , at Coleman-street, an-strcet, Mrs. C.W. Whiter, ai s r ai , On the 18th insi., in Paradise-street, Lambeth, aged b / Galliers, Esq., of the Stationery-office. London: Printed;;7ll3u7hlished by_MURDOYOUNO, c u" t r 112, Strand, at The Slitt Office, No. 112., Strand,in t he of Middlesex. —Thursday, December 22, 1836. 42 13 234 `.. ) 0 9 US-